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Tables of Contents for The Fable of the Southern Writer
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
Prologue: John Randolph and the Inwardness of History
1
12
I The Fable of the Agrarians and the Failure of the American Republic
13
11
II A Fable of White and Black: Jefferson, Madison, Tate
24
30
III History and the Will of the Artist: Elizabeth Madox Roberts
54
19
IV War and Memory: Quentin Compson's Civil War
73
23
V The Tenses ofHistory: Faulkner
96
18
VI The Poetry of Criticism: Allen Tate
114
18
VII The Loneliness Artist: RobertPenn Warren
132
23
VIII The Last Casualty of the Civil War: Arthur Crew Inman
155
28
IX From Thoreau to Walker Percy: Horreby Way of California; or, The End of the Southern Renascence
183
25
Epilogue: A Personal Fable: Living with Indians
208
31
Acknowledgments
239
2
Index
241